Posted on 03/26/2011 11:52:12 AM PDT by jazusamo
The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has called for an investigation into claims by American Muslims that they are being harassed by U.S. customs and border officials while trying to cross back into the country from Canada.
Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) asked the Justice Department (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to investigate allegations made by the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) that American-Muslims are being handcuffed, interrogated and sexually harassed for hours by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents along the northern border.
“With federal hearings on radicalization and intense scrutiny by law enforcement of religious institutions, the American-Islamic community today is living in a climate that has the risk of producing a siege mentality,” said Conyers in a statement.
“The American-Islamic community should know that the federal government will protect the interests of the community, while maintaining the appropriate focus on national security.”
Conyers' call for the investigation come as the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights prepares to hold a hearing next week on “Protecting the civil rights of American Muslims,” in which the panel will hear from DOJ’s assistant attorney general for its civil rights division.
Less than three weeks ago Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, held a highly controversial hearing on the radicalization of the Muslim-American community. Scores of Democrats adamantly opposed the hearing and said that it would further strain ties between Muslim Americans and the government and law enforcement.
Some criticized King for not inviting CAIR to testify at the hearing. King has long held CAIR to be an accessory to terrorist activities, pointing to the government naming it – among more than 200 other groups – as an unindicted co-conspirator in its case against the Holy Land Foundation providing support to Hamas. The FBI has discontinued its official contact with CAIR.
But Conyers said CAIR’s allegations regarding the mistreatment of American-Muslims at the border deserves the government’s full attention and could be further evidence of law enforcement officials racially and religiously profiling a group of people that would not fall under suspicion otherwise.
In a letter to DHS officials, CAIR said, “The men are thrown against their vehicles, handcuffed, and taken inside for questioning. An invasive and humiliating body search is performed, which many have described as sexual harassment. Some are left handcuffed for hours on end, in many cases standing upright. Others are left in a cell. At least a dozen Muslim women of Somali origin have also reported being subjected to invasive and humiliating searches at the border that they felt were inappropriate and a form of sexual harassment.”
Conyers said he was planning to try to work with Republican chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas).
Decoys...
There are NO Muslim Americans,Only Muslims with a agenda of World domination and BTW we are next on the list!
Yes, I think we SHOULD investigate why Muslims are treated with kid gloves by this government and why they are not being profiled to a higher and greater degree.
Good idea, there, Conyers. By the way, your wife out of jail yet?
I wan t an inguiry on the treatment of Americans by Muslims.
You'd think this would be enough to convince even the stupidest dim, but no, they'll be the death of us yet!
Profile all Muslims, and profile them some more, and just to make it fair, profile Conyers. They are the terrorists.
Yep, and they don’t come too much stupider (is that a word?:) than Conyers.
The socialist congressman from Detroit, John Conyers, 81, is attempting to dilute Rep. Peter King’s hearings on American Muslim terrorists under the pretense that U.S. Muslims are somehow an oppressed minority. It’s the old, liberal ‘race card’ ploy, substituting a ‘religion’ for race, this time. This will go nowhere but the leftmedia will be all over it, complete with video of crying woman in headscarves claiming they were harassed and molested by U.S. security forces ‘because of my religion’. Most Americans are very sympathetic to anyone’s constitutional freedoms being violated or anyone being harassed because of their religion and clever old pols like John Conyers know this and hope to use it to give all Muslims cover when their brethren commit terrorist acts against American targets that, quite rightly, outrage most right-thinking Americans. The dirty little secret is, of course, that few Americans instantly condemn all Muslims when one or two commit a terrorist act. The statistics regarding attacks on Muslims in the U.S. show a only a tiny fraction compared to attacks on, say, Jews. Americans are a tolerant people. We don’t hate based on your religion. Only Muslim terrorists do that. Someone should tell Congressman Conyers.
Bingo!
You nailed it JS, that’s exactly what Conyers is trying to do and it’s a tactic right out of Sharpton’s and Jackson’s playbook.
In Conyer's case, yes; he is the stupider, stupidest, moroniest Rep. ever..:=)
They are the fockers who have stomped on our liberty rights and freedoms... created a need for all the increased security, costs, insurance etc etc etc.....
...for those who haven’t seen this before
Welcome to the generation of illiterate and ill-informed grads.
If Obama (and his wrecking crew) gets his way there will be no America.
“Most people do not recognize that what happens in a mosque is sedition. Pure and simple. Islam is not just a “religion”, it is a cult. Larger than that though, it is a political system, it is it’s own government, a economic system (which includes funding new mosque construction), it’s judicial…all wrapped up in the word sharia. This is inclusive of its military (jihadis) all rolled into one with one intent …and that is to rule wherever they take root. It is an invasive, systemic infection looking to take over the host once it has quantum.
This is not a “religion”, but something that cloaks itself in those terms so it should not be given the same treatment contemplated under the first amendment. The Koran’s Sharia rules are to consume whatever government there is wherever it goes. Islam is political, and it’s goal is to supplant and replace. Globally.”
Supplant and replace? That is a direct threat to the American constitution.
Innocent religion? ~~~ NOT!
.... drink more kool aid, folks
Again, there is no such thing as a Muslim American, Hispanic American or African American. Either you are an American or you are not.
Agree completely.
Maybe a more accurate term is "Muslims in America."
Yes. "In" but not "of." They are not part of "us." Worse yet, they intend to rule over "us," with their Sharia and Caliphate.
“There are NO Muslim Americans..
Maybe a more accurate term is “Muslims in America.”
Terrorists in America.
Conyers is a fat commie pig who needs to thrown on a boat sailing one way to North Korea. His support for communist groups is well known in Michigan.
Plus there are hundreds of thousands of traitors in Michigan who continue sending this seditionist to Congress via their votes.
We have a major house cleaning to do when we take back power. My first solution is to declare these areas that vote for Conyers and others like him as districts in insurrection. Next, take away their right to vote for state and federal offices until they prove they can elect sane and competent local representatives. Then appoint a military governor to oversee the whole mess.
This was done during Reconstruction, and it needs to be done again. If we don’t clean this up, and soon, we’re heading for a bloody civil war.
How is Conyer’s wife doing in prison?
Or did Holder give her a hall pass??
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